Thread: NY mayor signs bills limiting deportation of Caribbean immigrants

NY mayor signs bills limiting deportation of Caribbean immigrants

Sunday, November 16, 2014 | 7:58 AM



Mayor Bill de Blasio (seated centre) at the signing on Friday

NEW YORK (CMC) – With United States President Barack Obama vowing to proceed on immigration reform by executive order, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday signed two bills that would drastically limit the federal government’s ability to deport undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants from New York City.
Under one of the new laws, the city will, in many cases, refuse to hand over immigrants in the criminal justice system to federal agents, according to the New York Daily News.

In the past, the city sometimes had to turn over people whose cases had been dismissed or who had been arrested on minor charges, the paper said.

Now, it said the city will only cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if the agency has a federal warrant, or if the person has been convicted of a serious crime or is on a terror watch list.

Another bill gets rid of ICE from its offices on Rikers Island jail in Queens, New York.

“We’re signing legislation that will have a really meaningful effect on the lives of immigrants,” said de Blasio, as he signed the bill, flanked by City Legislators and Carlos Rodriguez, who was mistakenly arrested for trespassing and detained by federal law enforcement authorities for eight months even though the charges were dropped.

Rodriquez is still fighting deportation to the Dominican Republic, the Daily News said.

“Even though it doesn’t help me right now, I know it helps somebody else out there,” Rodriquez said.

Nearing the end of an Asian trip, Obama, in Myanmar, repeated vows to use executive orders to act on overhauling immigration enforcement.

The president said Republicans “have the ability” to pass a comprehensive immigration bill.

But many conservative Republicans said they would risk forcing another government shutdown in a bid to block Obama from changing deportation practices.

“Unless Congress pre-empts or blocks the President’s promised executive action, a long-term funding bill is little more than a blank check for amnesty,” said Heritage Action, a Washington-based lobbying group with major influence among conservative Republicans, urging a shutdown threat.

As de Blasio signed the bills on Friday, New York City Council Speaker Puerto Rican-born Melissa Mark-Viverito repeated her support for another measure, supported by many immigrant advocacy groups, giving noncitizen immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections.

Mark-Viverito said the bill could be proposed as soon as January next year.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lates...ean-immigrants

“We’re signing legislation that will have a really meaningful effect on the lives of immigrants,” said de Blasio

He meant to say 'illegal' immigrants. You don't deport regular immigrants. And so nice of him to screw the citizens and care so much for illegals. Caribbean and other immigrants means all illegals in his Sate. You don't go around changing damned good laws to suite special interests!

Originally Posted by Kiara

He meant to say 'illegal' immigrants. You don't deport regular immigrants...

"Regular Immigrants", Legal Immigrants can be and are deported for felony convictions and other offenses up to the time they obtain citizenship.
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Grounds of Deportability: When Legal U.S. Residents Can Be Removed

Whether on a nonimmigrant visa or green card, committing certain acts or crimes can make a person deportable from the U.S.

Although people who carry nonimmigrant visas or green card holder have the right to be in the United States, such rights depend entirely on them following certain rules and avoiding certain types of legal violations. The U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.) sets forth numerous grounds upon which a non-citizen may be deported (removed) back to the person’s country of origin.

The grounds of deportability can be found in Section 237 of the I.N.A. They apply to anyone already legally living within the United States, perhaps with a nonimmigrant (temporary) visa or a green card (lawful permanent residence). The law also mentions that people who are in the U.S. without legal permission shall be deported.

Only after an immigrant has successfully become a U.S. citizen, is he or she safe from the grounds of deportability. U.S. citizens cannot be removed unless they used fraud to gain their green card or citizenship.

Briefly summarized, a person may be deportable from the U.S. if he or she:

• was inadmissible at time of U.S. entry or of adjustment of status, or violates the terms of his or her visa, green card, or other status.
• was a conditional permanent resident status (applicable to certain spouses, sons, and daughters of U.S. citizens as well as investor/entrepreneurs, with their spouses, and children) but had this status terminated.
• before, during, or within five years of the date of any U.S. entry, knowingly helped smuggle any other alien trying to enter the United States.
• committed marriage fraud.
• got married less than two years before getting a U.S. green card on that basis, then has the marriage annulled or terminated within the following two years, unless the immigrant can prove that the marriage was not a fraud, meant to evade any provision of the immigration laws.
• is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude that was committed within five years ) after the date of U.S. admission (or ten years if the person received a green card as a criminal informant) and is punishable by a sentence of at least one year.
• has been convicted of two or more crimes involving moral turpitude at any time after U.S. admission, where the two crimes did not arise out of a single scheme of misconduct.
• has been convicted of an aggravated felony at any time after U.S. admission.
• has been convicted of high-speed flight from an immigration checkpoint.
• fails to register as a sex offender.
• has been convicted of a drug crime (or a conspiracy or attempt to commit one), whether in the U.S. or another country, at any time after U.S. admission. There’s an exception for a single offense involving possession for personal use of 30 grams or less of marijuana.
• is, or at any time after U.S. admission has been, a drug abuser or addict. Notice that no actual court conviction is needed to be deportable under this section. The person’s own confession to drug use, or evidence on a medical report, could be enough.
• has been convicted of illegally buying, selling, possessing, or engaging in other transactions concerning firearms, weapons, or destructive devices, at any time after U.S. admission.
• has been convicted of committing, or conspiring to commit espionage, sabotage, treason, or sedition, if punishable by at least five years in prison.
• has violated the Military Selective Service Act or the Trading With the Enemy Act.
• has violated certain travel and documentation restrictions or imported aliens for immoral purposes.
• has been convicted of domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment, at any time after U.S. admission.
• has violated the portion of a protective order that is meant to stop credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury.
• has committed or conspired to commit human trafficking inside or outside the U.S. or has apparently been a knowing aider, abettor, assister, conspirator, or colluder with in severe forms of human trafficking; or is the trafficker’s spouse, or daughter who, within the past five years, knowingly received any financial or other benefit from the illicit activity.
• failed to advise the immigration authorities, in writing, of a change of address within ten days of the move, unless the person can prove that such failure was reasonably excusable or not willful.
• has been convicted of providing false information in connection with a requirement to register with immigration authorities or of other violations relating to fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other entry documents.
• has received a final order of deportation for document fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, or related violations.
• falsely represents himself or herself as a U.S. citizen in order to gain any immigration or other benefit. An exception is made if the person’s parents (natural or adoptive) are or were U.S. citizens, the person lived in the United States before age 16, and the person reasonably believed himself or herself to be a U.S. citizen.
• is engaged, or at any time after admission engages in espionage, sabotage, or violations or evasions of any law prohibiting export of goods, technology, or sensitive information, or in any other criminal activity that is a danger to public safety or national security, or acts in opposition to, or attempts to control or overthrow the U.S. government by force, violence, or other unlawful means.
• has engaged in or appears likely to engage in terrorist activity, or has incited terrorist activity, or is a representative a terrorist organization or group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity, or is a member of a terrorist organization (unless the person proves that he had no idea of its terrorist aims), or endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to do so, or has received military-type training from or on behalf a terrorist organization, or is the terrorist’s spouse or child, if the relevant activity took place within the last five years.
• by being present in the U.S., would create potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.
• participated in Nazi persecution, genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings, severe violations of religious freedom, or recruitment or use of child soldiers.
• within five years after U.S. entry, has become a public charge (dependent on need-based government assistance) for reasons that did not arise after the person’s U.S. entry.
• has voted in violation of any federal, state, or local law. An exception is made for people who, based on parentage, reasonably believed themselves to be U.S. citizens.

Even if the immigration authorities believe that you are deportable, you will not be kicked out of the country right away. In most cases (unless, for example, there is an outstanding order of removal in your file), you have a right to defend your case in immigration court. For some types of deportability, the law may provide a waiver (legal forgiveness) that you can apply for. Definitely get expert help from a lawyer's help if you are facing removal proceedings or believe you may have become deportable.

by: Ilona Bray, J.D.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encycloped...e-removed.html

JohnDoe, the bill he signed also covers illegal immigrants. Of course he likes to call the "undocumented" immigrants.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday signed two bills that would drastically limit the federal government’s ability to deport undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants from New York City.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday signed two bills that would drastically limit the federal government’s ability to deport undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants from New York City...

http://www.alipac.us/f19/stunning-hy...ration-314629/

Sounds like the deBlasio administration is about as corrupt as the boys in Chicago.

De Blasio rips McFarlan for invoking wife Chirlane McCray

By Tara Palmeri

October 21, 2014 | 5:55am

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio (right) talks as wife, First Lady of the City of New York Chirlane McCray (left) looks on during a ceremony at the Empire State Building.Photo: Getty Images


Mayor de Blasio is willing to give Rachel Noerdlinger and her cop-hating boyfriend a pass on just about any offense — but not for invoking the name of Hizzoner’s wife to try to get out of paying parking tickets.

“He shouldn’t have done that,” de Blasio said Monday, when pressed by reporters for comment on Hassaun McFarlane’s antcis before a parking-violations judge.


Rachel Noedrlinger and her boyfriend Hassaun McFarlanPhoto: Facebook

Records show that McFarlane — who also goes by the name McFarlan — told the judge that cops singled him out for parking summonses because he’s black and “I drive a nice car.”

McFarlane, who has been dating Noerdlinger (right), also dropped her name and the mayor’s wife’s name at separate hearings. “She’s the chief of staff for the First Lady, Chirlane McCray, so I’m basically the driver,” he said of his girlfriend on July 9, according to audio recordings of the hearings obtained by The Post.

The judge wasn’t impressed and instructed McFarlane to pay up.

The $420 traffic tickets are the least of McFarlane’s offenses.

His rap sheet includes a homicide, drug- trafficking and attempting to run a cop off the road in Edgewater, NJ, last year.

De Blasio ducked two questions about McFarlane during a press conference in Queens, saying, “He’s not a public servant, I really have nothing to say about him, and I think I’ve spoken sufficiently on this topic.”

After a third, he said, “He’s on his own time and he shouldn’t have done that. That’s all I’m gonna say about it.”

http://nypost.com/2014/10/21/de-blasio-rips-mcfarlan-for-invoking-wife-chirlane-mccray/